Viridity Energy

The Military Microgrid as Smart Grid Asset

The Military Microgrid as Smart Grid Asset

Jeff St. John: May 17, 2013

Fort Bliss, Texas becomes first DOD microgrid to hook up to the grid. What’s next?

Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Intelligent Efficiency

Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Intelligent Efficiency

Stephen Lacey: May 7, 2013

We feature an in-depth audio report on the way IT is revolutionizing energy efficiency.

Biggest Power Users Provide Gigawatts of Smart Grid Flexibility

Biggest Power Users Provide Gigawatts of Smart Grid Flexibility

Jeff St. John: March 11, 2013

Enbala sees gigawatts of untapped grid flexibility out there in the world’s big water pumps, cold storage warehouses and other big power users.

How Much Renewable Energy Can the Grid Handle?

How Much Renewable Energy Can the Grid Handle?

Jeff St. John: March 4, 2013

Experts at the ARPA-E conference weigh in on how much solar and wind power is, or isn’t, too much for the grid.

How EnerNOC Is Adapting Demand Response for ‘Big Data’ Applications

How EnerNOC Is Adapting Demand Response for ‘Big Data’ Applications

Jeff St. John: February 20, 2013

The big U.S. demand response provider is launching utility SaaS offerings, big data analytics and open development partnerships.

BuildingIQ Raises $9M for Optimized AC

BuildingIQ Raises $9M for Optimized AC

Jeff St. John: January 22, 2013

The HVAC optimization startup gets strategic backing from Siemens and Schneider Electric.

2012 Top Trends in Demand Response

2012 Top Trends in Demand Response

Jeff St. John: December 21, 2012

FERC Orders 745 and 755, OpenADR, the smart building-smart grid nexus, and other key demand response trends

The Military-Industrial-Sustainability Complex

The Military-Industrial-Sustainability Complex

Jeff St. John: November 28, 2012

IBM deploys its Tririga building sustainability suite for the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

How Microgrids Helped Weather Hurricane Sandy

How Microgrids Helped Weather Hurricane Sandy

Jeff St. John: November 20, 2012

Also, how to make microgrids pay for themselves when there isn’t a hurricane on the way

GreenBuild: Battery-Backed Hotels, Smart Lighting, PACE Finance and More

GreenBuild: Battery-Backed Hotels, Smart Lighting, PACE Finance and More

Jeff St. John: November 19, 2012

A snapshot of some high-profile projects coming out of the annual green building conference

The Building Energy Cloud Platform, Apps Included

The Building Energy Cloud Platform, Apps Included

Jeff St. John: November 14, 2012

Johnson Controls’ Panoptix cloud platform for building management includes apps from BuildingIQ, FirstFuel, Lucid and more.

Schneider Electric Joins OpenADR Fray With IPKeys

Schneider Electric Joins OpenADR Fray With IPKeys

Jeff St. John: November 6, 2012

Look out, Honeywell/Akuacom, there’s a new automated demand response (ADR) challenger in town—and it’s a big one.

Q3 Smart Grid Investment: Home Automation Rules

Q3 Smart Grid Investment: Home Automation Rules

Jeff St. John: October 23, 2012

Q3 smart grid VC rises to $238 million—but $136 million of that was for Alarm.com’s home automation technology.

Green Charge Networks, and New York City’s Corner-Store Smart Grid

Green Charge Networks, and New York City’s Corner-Store Smart Grid

Jeff St. John: August 23, 2012

Can lithium-ion batteries at 7-Eleven stores and rent-a-car EV charging stations give NYC utility ConEd street-by-street grid control?

OutBack Power, Going Where Microgrids and Solar Align

OutBack Power, Going Where Microgrids and Solar Align

Jeff St. John: August 16, 2012

A leader in remote solar-powered microgrids says the grid-connected solar competition could learn some lessons from its off-grid experience.